Clarion Chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma :)

[EagleChick19]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Ali - who is down to 8??? PM me...I thought the other chapter that was lower in sisters had recovered from that.

West Chester has crazy big (for SSHE) pledge classes, like around 30. I don't know what they are doing/not doing that Greek life is so strong there.

It's definitely a money issue, plus I wonder what the Greek housing is like compared to dorms/other off campus housing. Not that any of what we had was palaces, but if all these students have known is suites where the most people they had to share the bathroom with was 1...I can see them bitching about the prospect of moving into a 14 person, 2 bathroom house. Obviously the alcohol factor plays into this as well. And of course the fact that Greek life is not a "must" for achieving a social life is part of it too.

For as much as the SSHE schools are investing in new buildings and construction, it seems like they are more "suitcase campuses" than ever. I lived in a crappy cement block dorm for 2 years and a teeny made over family house for 2 years...only went home when the school kicked me out for breaks...wouldn't change it for the world.

I'm the advisor for the AST chapter at West Chester. Most of the chapter have pledge classes of 35+ girls. Our last class was 38.

Most of the chapters here are 80+ girls. But, they are expanding to add a 9th NPC chapter in the fall of 2013 and maybe fall of 2014 (which would make 10 NPC chapters.)

[nittanygirl]

Happy to hear good news about your chapter at Clarion!

I'm from the area, and many of my high school classmates go/went there and some are in Greek life. I hold Clarion as a special place in my heart!

I wish them continued luck!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by EagleChick19

I'm the advisor for the AST chapter at West Chester. Most of the chapter have pledge classes of 35+ girls. Our last class was 38.

Most of the chapters here are 80+ girls. But, they are expanding to add a 9th NPC chapter in the fall of 2013 and maybe fall of 2014 (which would make 10 NPC chapters.)

So, what is the secret??? How are yinz doing it?

Originally Posted by *winter*

At SRU, there were 6 sororities...hm let's see...AST, A Xi D, Tri Sigma, DZ, AOII, Phi Sigma Sigma. Only Tri Sig had a house. It was off campus and a regular family sized house...not very large.

We all bought into the "brothel law" theory...I was surprised to hear any SSHE schools had housing.

OT but I can't believe how nice some of these new dorms are! Nicer than some of my early apartments as a working adult

You guys had other houses way back in the day (same as Clarion did, off campus and not connected to the school officially).

It's making a circle now I think...when I got to campus (in 85) there were groups who had "houses" but nothing with letters on them, just off-campus housing that got passed down through the years (landlords are lazy and if you tell them you know some great girls/guys to fill the house they're not going to think twice). Then all of a sudden the Greek system was flourishing, the sororities were leaving/being asked to leave their dorm suites and houses were possible. Now official houses are almost more of an albatross than an asset.